The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1887-12-23

smile b sometimes Just as sacred IS &
tear. There Is ~ much religion, and
think . little more, in . spring morning
than in q starless midnight. Religious
work without any humor or wit in it 10 q
banquet with side Of beef. and that
raw, and no condiments, and no dessert
succeeding. People win not sit down ae
such banquet. By all means remove all
frivOlitv and all bathos and all lightness
and oil vuigarity-strain them out
through the sieve of holy discrimination;
but, ON the other hand, beware OF
that monster which over-shadows
the Christian Church to-day, con.
ventionality, coming mp from the great
Sahara desert Of Ecclesiasticism, having
on its back . hump OF sanctimoniOus
gloom, and vehemently refuse to swallow
that camel
| Oh, how particular great many people
are about the infinitesimals while they are
quite reckless about the magnitudes.
What did Christ sayi Did he not excoriate
the people In his time who were 80 care
full to wash their hands before q meal, but
did not wash their hearfsf It Is bad
| thing to have unclean hands; It is worse
thing to have an unclean heart. How
many people there are In our time who
| are very anxious that after their death
they shall be buried with their feet toward
the East, and not at all anxious that dur
| ing their whole life they should face in
the right direction, SO that they shall
| come Up in the resurrection Of the just
whichever way they are buried. How
many there are chiefly anxious that q
| min ister of the Gospel shall come in the
| line of apostolic succession, not caring SO
much whether he comes from Apostle Paul
or Apostle Judas. They have a way of
measuring q gnat until it is larger than q
camel.
Again: Ely subject photographs all
.nose who are abhOrrent of small sins
| while they are reckless in regard 10 mag.
| nificent thefts. You will find many a
merchant who, while he is SO careful
that he would not take a yard of cloth or
a spool of cotton from the counter with
out paying for It, and who, il a bank
cashier should make q mistake and send
in a roll Of bills five dollars too much,
would dispatch q messenger in hot haste
to return the surplus, yet who will go in
to stock company in which, af.er
awhile, he. gets control Of the stock, and
then waters the stock and makes one hum
dred thousand dollars appear like two
hundred thousand dollars. He only stole
one hundred thousand dollars by the
operation. Many of the men of fortune
made their wealth in that way. One OF
those men, engaged in such unrighteous
acts that evening, the evening Of the
very day when he watered the stock,
will find a wharf rat stealing a news.
paper from the basement doorway, and
will go out and catch the urchin
by this collar, and twist the COL
lar SO tightly the poor fellow can
not say that it was thirst for
knowledge that led him to the dishonest
act, but grip the collar tighten and tighter,
saying, 81 have been looking fer yOu a
long while; you stole my paper four or
five times, haven't you, you miserable
wretch" And then the old stock gambler,
with voice they can hear three blocks,
will cry out, "Police. policew That same
man, the evening of tho day in which he
watered the stock, will kneel with his
family in prayers and thank God for the
prosperity of the day, then kiss his chill
dren coed night with an air which seems
to saw: 81 hope you will all grow up to be
as good as your father" Prisons for sins
insectile in siz,, but palaces for crime
No mercy for sins animal
Guile in proportion. but great lenisncy for
mastodon iniquty. A poor boy slyly
takes from the basket of a market woman
a choke pear-saving some one else from
the cholera-and you smother him i'm the
horrible atmosphere Of RAYMOND Street
Jail or New York Tombs. while his cousin,
who has been skillful enough to steal &c..
coo from the city, you will make him q |
candidate for the New York Legisla- |
ture.
There is a great deal of uneasiness and |
now among some people in |
our time who have gotten unrighteous |
great deal of nervousness |
about dynamite. / tell them that God |
will put und,r their unrighteous fortunes
more explosive than dynamite
the earthquake of his OmniDotent in.
lignation. 1t is time that we learn in
America that sin is not excusable in pro-
portion rs it declare, large dividsnds and
has outriders in equipaye. Many a man
Is riding to per lition. position ahead and
ackey behind. To steal one copy OF a
is a gnat; to steal many thou
sands of dol ars isa camel. Thsrs is many
a fruit dealer who wou'd not cons ,nt to
steal a basket of peaches from a neigh
bars stall, but who would mot scruple to
ispress the fruit markst; and as long as l
IAN remember We have heard every
summer "the peach crop Of
Maryland is failure" and by
the time the crop comes in the ,nisrepre-
'entation makes q differences OF millions
" dollars. A man who would not steal
me peach basket steals fifty thousand
peach baskets. Go down in the summer
lime to the Mercantile Library, in the
ealing rooms and see the newspaper re-
ports OF the crops from all parts of tho
and their phraseology is very
much the same, and the same men wrote
hem, methodically and UNANIMOUSLY carry.
ng out the huge lying about tbs grain
rop from wear to year and for q score of
'ears. After awhile there will bs ''cor-
Ter" in the wheat market, and men who
lad contempt for petty theft will
'urglarizo the wheat bin of a nation and
commit larceny upon the American
orn- crib. And some Of the men will
it it churches and in reformatory
Institutions trying 10 strain ont
he small gnats of scoundrelism,
rhile in their grain elevators and their
torehouses they are fattening huge camels
which they expect after awhile to swal-
DIV. Society has TO be entirely recon-
tructed on this subject. We are to find
bat n sin is inexcusable in proportion as
is great.
I know in our time the tendency is to
barge relig Gus frauds upon good men.
hey say: "Oh, what a class OF frauds
ou have IN the Church of God in this :
avs" and when an elder Of a church, or a .
eacon, O. minister of tn, Gospel, or .
of a Sabbath-schOol turns
ut a defauter. what display heads there
re i'm many OF the newspapers. Great ,
rimer type. Five line plea. "Another .